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The article reviews the book "Caring By The Hour: Women, Work, and Organizing at Duke Medical Center," by Karen Brodkin Sachs.
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For the purposes of this review, labour studies is defined to encompass various disciplinary approaches, but, in general, this essay focuses on studies of the working class, not just of the labour movement, and material which places the working class in historical perspective. --From authors' introduction
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The article reviews the book, "Madeleine Parent, Léa Roback, Entretiens avec Nicole Lacelle," by Nicole Lacelle.
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The article reviews two books, "Workers on the Waterfront: Seamen, Longshorement, and Unionism in the 1930s," by Bruce Nelson, and "Work on the Waterfront: Worker Power and Technological Change in a West Coast Port," by William Finlay.
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The article reviews the book, "The World of Our Mothers: The Lives of Jewish Immigrant Women," by Sydney Stahl Weinberg.
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The article reviews the book,"Continuity, Chance, and Change: The Character of the Industrial Revolution in England," by E. A. Wrigley.
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The article reviews the book, "The People of Sonora and Yankee Capitalists," by Ramón Eduardo Ruiz Urueta.
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The article reviews the book, "Labor Law and Business Change: Theoretical and Transactional Perspectives," by Samuel Estreicher and Daniel G. Collins.
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The article reviews the book, "Mouvement Populaire et Intervention Communautaire de 1960 à Nos Jours: Continuités et Ruptures," by Louis Favreau.
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Il y a des sujets à la mode. Les mutations du syndicalisme en sont un au Québec comme dans l’ensemble des sociétés industrialisées. Ce qui fait cependant l’originalité et l’intérêt de la discussion, c’est de pouvoir réfléchir sur le passé et l’avenir du syndicalisme québécois en tant qu’institution coexistant et entretenant des rapports avec d’autres institutions qui façonnent notre société. En l’occurrence, les autres institutions les plus concernées sont l’entreprise et l’État. Il faut souligner le fait qu’il n’est pas habituel, pour le mouvement syndical, de se trouver interpellé en tant qu’institution. Ce n’est pas habituel, et avouons que ce n’est pas le visage sous lequel nous préférons nous voir et être vus. Par ses origines historiques, le syndicalisme est d’abord un mouvement social : il n’était même précisément que cela au début. Chemin faisant, il s’est, comme on dit, institutionnalisé. Je ne conteste pas que le syndicalisme, aujourd’hui, au Québec comme dans tous les pays occidentaux industrialisés, soit une institution. Mais le syndicalisme n’est pas que cela. La seule lecture du syndicalisme en tant qu'institution est une lecture tronquée. Le syndicalisme est double.... --Introduction
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Briefly summarizes the conference, "Making Connections, Workers and Their Communities," held at York University on May 26-28, 1989. Mary DeVan related her doctoral research on Filipino domestic workers in Vancouver, Margaret Oldfield and Belinda Leach adddressed low-paid clerical and garment workers (including the methodological challenges of researching the latter) whose workplace is the home, and Sedef Arat-Koç commented on a recently published paper [entitled "In the Privacy of Our Own Home: Foreign Domestic Workers as a Solution to the Crisis in the Domestic Sphere of Canada"] on the political economy of the relationship of the state to domestic service. Concludes that a holistic approach to women's work including a new commitment to labour-community organization is necessary to uncover the reality of women's invisible household labour.
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The article reviews the book, "Comprendre et appliquer une convention collective," by Ronald Sirard and Alain Gazaille.
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The article reviews the book, "Collective Bargaining In Industrialised Market Economies: A Reappraisal," by John P. Windmuller.
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The article reviews the book, "Bâtir un pays. Histoire des travaux publics au Canadam" edited by Norman R. Ball.
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The article reviews the books "Maurice Sugar: Law, Labor, and the Left in Detroit, 1912-1950," by Christopher H. Johnson, and "Two Who Were There: A Biography of Stanley Nowak," by Margaret Collingwood Nowak.
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In this paper, we construct an index of the "cost of job loss" — defined as the income that a "representative worker" would lose upon being dismissed or laid off — in Canada between 1953 and 1985. Since this measure captures the monetary cost of unemployment, it is superior to the aggregate unemployment rate as an indicator of the relative bargaining power of capital and labour. Changes in the distribution of income between capital and labour are then considered. It is argued that with the decline in the cost of job loss between 1962 and 1973, the relative bargaining power of workers increased, and real wages rose accordingly. Subsequently, the cost of job loss has risen dramatically and real wages have fallen as capital has sought to restore conditions for rapid rates of accumulation.
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The Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor was the leading labor organization in North America during the late nineteenth century. The entire history of the Knights in Canada spans approximately thirty years (1875-1907). In the early to mid-1880s the Order expanded rapidly throughout the cities, towns, and villages of Ontario. After the mid-1880s, the number of local assemblies across Ontario began to decline. A significant percentage of the Ontario work-force was drawn to the Knights over the course of their history. The Knights were the first North American union to organize workers based on an all-inclusive style of membership. All workers, regardless of skill level, gender, ethnicity, and religion were welcome into the Noble and Holy Order. Historians and social scientists have advanced several competing perspectives on the Knights of Labor. This thesis evaluates the positions that the competing 'labor schools' have advanced on the Order, with special reference to south central Ontario in the 1880s. The evaluation the competing labor schools is based on a content analysis of the late-nineteenth century labor press. The main sample selected for this thesis is Hamilton's Palladium of Labor (1883-1886). A combination of primary and secondary data sources are examined in order to build support for one of the competing perspectives that has been advanced on the Knights.
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